cudarsjanis Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 My 1st and 2nd shot made in Houdini + breakdown. Still doing compositing in AfterFX as I don`t know Nuke that well yet. Hope you like it. Janis 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atom Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Looks nice! Can I ask about what hardware you use to produce such effects? And how long it takes to produce those simulations and the final render passes? As a single user home operator of Houdini I find that most tasks are beyond my single 8 core computer. I am often faced with hundreds of hours of sim time and render time. How do you render noise free using Mantra? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cudarsjanis Posted March 25, 2016 Author Share Posted March 25, 2016 Looks nice! Can I ask about what hardware you use to produce such effects? And how long it takes to produce those simulations and the final render passes? As a single user home operator of Houdini I find that most tasks are beyond my single 8 core computer. I am often faced with hundreds of hours of sim time and render time. How do you render noise free using Mantra? This is my setup: Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache 32GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (4 x 8GB) 4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 970 240 GB SSD 2 TB HDD And when I was working on the first shot I had to buy external Hard Drive (2 TB) so I don`t run out of space. Those simulation do take a lot of space. I`m rendering with Mantra pbr with pretty much default settings. And second shot is very very noisy. I even had to add noise to foam layer in comp, so it matches with the ocean render noisiness, but when I added color correction and some flares it`s not so noticeable For render times. 1st shot took a long time. Longest probably was writing out Whitewater particles. Run out of RAM and Houdini crashed even few times. For the first shot . writing out cache and rendering all together (if I would be rendering just final versions not million versions and rerenderings ) I would say 4-5 straight Days (24hx5) The second shot was faster. 2-3 days together I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atom Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 Thanks for the information. My rig is very close to yours. It gives me hope I will eventually be able to produce more complex output. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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